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The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. [8] In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. [9] The following names describe five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic.
In geography, a sound is a smaller body of water usually connected to a sea or an ocean. A sound may be an inlet that is deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea channel or an ocean channel between two land masses, such as a strait; or also a lagoon between a barrier island and the mainland. [1] [2]
Atlantic Ocean near the Faroe Islands. A sea is a large body of salt water.There are particular seas and the sea.The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the interconnected body of seawaters that spans most of Earth.
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Ocean and Malay came up with "Super Rich Kids" on their first day working together on Ocean's debut album, Channel Orange. [5] According to Ocean, the 2000 film Traffic was an inspiration for the song. [6] Ocean first performed the song during his debut solo tour in 2011, [7] and later performed it on the Channel Orange Tour. [8]
The oceanic zone is typically defined as the area of the ocean lying beyond the continental shelf (e.g. the neritic zone), but operationally is often referred to as beginning where the water depths drop to below 200 metres (660 ft), seaward from the coast into the open ocean with its pelagic zone.
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The world ocean covers an area of 3.618 × 10 8 km 2 with a mean depth of 3682 m, resulting in an estimated volume of 1.332 × 10 9 km 3. [17] If all of Earth's crustal surface was at the same elevation as a smooth sphere, the depth of the resulting world ocean would be about 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi). [18] [19] The Earth's water cycle